To the friends of Common Ground Outreach:
the holidays are especially painful for our brothers and sisters in prison. All the pain of separation from family and things on the outside is intensified. For long term inmates the loneliness can be unbearable. If you haven't yet contributed to Common Ground, do so now, and your gift will be translated into packages for inmates for Christmas / nutritious snacks and simple gifts to remind them they're not forgotten.
&nbs...
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The Thankful Feast
Make it count! Prepare for Thanksgiving ahead of time! We love to celebrate and feasting is only one delicious way to do that.
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Common Ground Outreach / this week
My friend, Elizabeth Evans (I call her Bits), sent me an article in a newspaper she reads that benefits homeless people in Tennessee. The article is titled: Outside the Prison Wall: Why a former prison chaplain became a prison abolitionist.
Common Ground is, amongst other things, a ministry to prison folks.
As Amanda, the chaplain, says, “… people would come in to work with prisoners, enter into relationships, build community, and be overwhelmed when what they found was love, underst...
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